Featured Live Performance

Amazing footage of Fela Kuti, live in 1971. Shot by Ginger Baker, the drummer from Cream, at a small night club in Calabar, Nigeria. Filmed just shortly after the end of the Nigerian Civil War, Fela was taking his message straight to the people. Translation? "No matter what you (the government I assume) do to me, I can not be silenced. If even if I am jailed, that would not stop me from telling the truth." He goes on to say, "The truth is bitter, mankind detests it. The chorus: "Allow me say my part, allow me!". This video will make you feel like you are there on that hot, rainy night. I wish I was!